Raffaele spinoza biography wikipedia

He is considered to be one of the great Rationalist philosophers of the 17th century. Spinoza's ideas were not cherished by the Jewish community in Amsterdam of the time, and Spinoza was excommunicated in An important idea in Spinoza's philosophy is God and Nature everything that exists are the same thing. Opposing dualism and free will as determinist , Spinoza said that the body and the mind soul are two of God's infinite attributes.

There is no good or evil in Nature, and that these words only have meanings for human beings. For a person, an event that leads to happiness is good, and an event that leads to suffering is bad.

Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order is a philosophical treatise written in Latin by Baruch Spinoza (Benedictus de Spinoza).

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